
Lisbon
Lisbon, the capital on the Tagus, spreads from Alfama and Bairro Alto to Belém, with river sails, food tours and day trips across Portugal.
View detailsLisbon, the capital on the Tagus, spreads from Alfama and Bairro Alto to Belém, with river sails, food tours and day trips across Portugal.
View detailsSintra, set against its misty mountain close to Lisbon, gathers palaces, convents and the cliffs of Cabo da Roca within its forests.
View detailsCascais, on the coast west of Lisbon, grew from a fishing village into the royal family's summer retreat, with museums and beaches.
View detailsSetúbal sits between the Sado estuary and the Arrábida park, with dolphins offshore, the São Filipe fort and the Livramento market.
View detailsSesimbra, between the Arrábida hills and the sea, is a fishing town turned resort, with dolphins, buggies and the Cabo Espichel sanctuary.
View detailsCosta da Caparica is the long Atlantic beach south of the Tagus where Lisbon goes to surf, its fishing past still showing at the tables.
View detailsEriceira is a fishing village turned world surf reserve on the Lisbon coast, its white houses above a busy little harbour.
View detailsMafra is the town of the monumental National Palace ordered by João V in 1717, with the great walled Tapada beside it.
View detailsTorres Vedras, in the Oeste, pairs its twelfth-century castle with one of Portugal's most famous carnivals and Lisbon-region wineries.
View detailsAlmada, on the Tagus opposite Lisbon, keeps the Cristo Rei sanctuary above the river, a story running back to Roman fortifications.
View detailsVila Franca de Xira is the bull-running town on the Tagus, where the lezíria raises fighting bulls and the EVOA marshes shelter birds.
View detailsTróia is the sand peninsula across the Sado from Setúbal, with Roman fish-salting ruins, Atlantic beaches and the dolphins of the estuary.
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